This is an autochrome color photo, taken at the Paris Air Show on the 30th of September, 1909, only six years after the successful flight of the Wright Brothers. It has been cleaned up, but all the color is original to the photograph.
Restoration done by Babelcolour.
#photography #history #historyInColor #restoration #noAI
Another week. Another museum. This week the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm. I came here largely to see this one tool chest.
It's the Mรคstermyr toolchest. A 1000 year old chest filled with blacksmithing and woodworking tools. It's an incredibly important find. Beautifully preserved in the bog. The tools are wonderful. I'd seen pictures and read about these tools, but to see them up close. That hack saw is exquisite.
I wonder how the chest ended up discarded.
Middle-class white Americans think that history is something that happened a long time ago, mostly to other people.
They are encouraged in this by an educational system that avoids dealing with anything more recent than 1980, because it is "controversial". Nothing in the living memory of the parents of school children is taught. Otherwise they might disagree with the accepted Whig view that the natural arc of history bends towards America.
Nominally, high school US history courses tend to be split into 1620-1870 and 1870-2000. They get equal weight... but there's always a crunch towards the end of the year, so the last couple of decades get short shrift. All you need to know, kids, is that Ronald Reagan defeated the Evil Empire and the Berlin Wall was taken down, then there were computers and cable TV. Time for a test!
Anyway, that's how we got here.
#OnThisDay, 24 Feb 1968, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - along with her male supervisor and three other men - published a paper confirming the discovery of pulsars. She had built the array, picked up the signal and argued it was not an anomaly. Hewish received the Nobel prize for it in 1974: Bell Burnell did not.
In 2018 Bell Burnell received a ยฃ3m prize for her work. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
Hello, I'm new to Mastadon and looking to meet people interested in medieval Silk Road history, especially of women and non-western historical fiction.
To sort of give you an idea of the weird stuff I'm into, here's a post I did about stories written in the Medieval Silk Road that feature women and are available in English:
mariamalmasriauthor.wordpress.โฆ
On this, anyone else into weird and obscure histories?
#intro #history #historicalFiction #silkroad #womenshistory #books
The Silk Road had men and women of all walks of life. It also was one of historyโs most literate eras and places, prior to the modern age. One of the reasons that we know that is from the stoโฆWomen Along the Silk Road
Iโm researching the life of my 5 x great grandfather Samuel Cottrell. This will be an interesting challenge because Samuel, a non-conformist, managed to avoid all the censuses taken in the 1800s
Samuel was born on 11 July 1796 to John Cottrell and Mary Teek. He was baptised on 2 October 1796 at Saint Lukeโs Old Street, Finsbury, London.
During this research, I hope to learn more about London as well.
#FamilyTree #FamilyHistory #History #Genealogy #London #1700s
Z krรกtkometrรกลพnรญho filmu (1969, reลพie Milan Peer)Hudba + text: Bohdan MikolรกลกekZpฤv + akustickรก kytara: Bohdan MikolรกลกekYouTube
On this day in 1983, the ARPANET network officially switched to using the TCP/IP protocol, effectively creating the Internet.
"January 1, 1983 is considered the official birthday of the Internet. Prior to this, the various computer networks did not have a standard way to communicate with each other."
Journalist Carl von Ossietzky was a constant voice against Nazism and rising militarism in 1920s and 1930s Germany. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for it โ and he died for it. In this long read for Atavist, Kate McQueen tells his story. "They may condemn us, today, tomorrow, the day after, [and] we will accept it,โ he once wrote. โBut our pride will be in โฆ becoming more energetic, sharper, denser and tougher. Thatโs why we are journalists.โ
#History @histodons #Journalism #Nazism #Germany
The Third Reich feared Carl von Ossietzky so much they sent him to a concentration camp. Could winning the Nobel Peace Prize save his life?Kate McQueen (The Atavist Magazine)
The first text message was sent on this day in 1992 by then a 22-year-old engineer Neil Papworth to wish "Merry Christmas" to his colleague.
"It didn't feel momentous at all. For me it was just getting my job done on the day and ensuring that our software that we'd been developing for a good year was working OK."
history.com/this-day-in-historโฆ
#OTD #OnThisDay #technology #history #phone #TextMessage #MerryChristmas
On December 3, 1992, the first SMS text message in history is sent: Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old engineer, uses a personal computer to send the text message โMerry Christmasโ via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.Missy Sullivan (HISTORY)
#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars.
Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a ยฃ3m prize for her work in 2018. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons
Matching dinosaur footprints in Cameroon and Brazil record a time when Africa and South America were still connected & herds could wander between them.
I'm not saying the very same dinosaur was stomping around in both Cameroon and Brazil...but it's possible.
nytimes.com/2024/08/28/scienceโฆ
#science #history #nature #dinosaurs
More than 260 similar footprints found in Brazil and Cameroon help us understand a region that broke apart millions of years ago.Alexandra E. Petri (The New York Times)
I remember David Graeber's insight into #voting being a big 'Aha' moment for me:
"Majoritarian democracy was, in its origins, essentially a military institution. . . .
"It is of obvious relevance that Ancient Greece was one of the most competitive societies known to history. It was a society that tended to make everything into a public contest . . . So it might not seem entirely surprising that they made political decision-making into a public contest as well. Even more crucial though was the fact that decisions were made by a populace in arms. . . . [I]f a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. . . . [E]ven if the vote was 60/40, everyone could see the balance of forces and what would happen if things actually came to blows. Every vote was, in a real sense, a conquest." #history #politics #democracy
- Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology theanarchistlibrary.org/librarโฆ
David Graeber Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology 2004The Anarchist Library
Jared (History) and Nick (Sociology) discuss history and theories related to revolution and social change.YouTube
George Lucas got the idea for Princess Leia's iconic "space buns" from Mexican revolutionary women. Specifically Clara de la Rocha, a total badass.
Clara's descendant recounted:
"She crossed a river on horsebackโฆand was able to take out a power station in order to allow the rebel forces to attack during night without being seen."
Just like Leia, eh?
On Clara:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_deโฆ
Lucas interview:
time.com/archive/6911956/so-whโฆ
#HispanicHeritageMonth #Mexico #History #StarWars #PrincessLeia
On July 2, 1982, Larry Walters attached 43 weather balloons to his lawn chair, filled them with helium, put on a parachute, and strapped himself into the chair.
Later, when a reporter asked what made him decide to take a patio chair aloft, Walters explained:
"A man can't just sit around."
#OnThisDay #history #LawnchairLarry #LarryWalters #AManCantJustSitAround
10. ฤervna 1942 doลกlo k vyhlazenรญ Lidic nฤmeckรฝmi nacisty... Nutno si to stรกle dokola pลipomรญnat, aby se historie neopakovala. ๐ฏ๏ธ
stream.cz/slavnedny/den-kdy-byโฆ
cs.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyhlazโฆ
Vyhlazenรญ Lidic bylo jedinรฝm pลรญpadem genocidy, ke kterรฉmu se nacistรฉ bฤhem 2. svฤtovรฉ vรกlky oficiรกlnฤ pลiznali, dokonce se jรญm i chlubili.Stream
#TIL that in 1929, JM Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, gifted his work's copyright to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.
"Through this gift, Peter Panโs magic made an unprecedented leap from the realm of fiction into reality and the hospital began to receive royalties every time a production of the play was on, as well as from the sale of Peter Pan books and other products."
gosh.org/about-us/peter-pan/hiโฆ
#history #literature #books #bookstodon #PeterPan #philanthropy
The famous #graduation song is a send-off fit for a king! It was originally written for the coronation of King Edward VII in 1901, but evolved to be used during ceremonies for accomplished graduates.
The interesting #history:
theconversation.com/how-a-britโฆ
For Brits, โPomp and Circumstanceโ evokes nostalgia for a vanished, golden age. But Americans experience it as a stirring sendoff into a hopeful future.The Conversation
#OnThisDay, 18 May 1953, Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman pilot to break the sound barrier.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AviationHistory #Histodons
17 May is Dรญa das Letras Galegas (Galician Literature Day).
#OnThisDay, 17 May 1863, Marรญa Rosalรญa Rita de Castro's poetry is published. Itโs the first publication by a single author in Galician for 400 years. The public holiday was introduced to celebrate the centenary of Rosalia de Castro's work.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Galicia #LiteraryWomen #FlashbackFriday
Very early #OnThisDay, 6 May 1944, Marguerite 'Peggy' Knight parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance.
Knight fought her way out of an attempted capture, and returned to the UK in September 1944.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 19 Apr 1967, Katherine Switzer becomes the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon as a registered runner, despite the organiser physically trying to stop her.
She ran it again in 2017, 50 years later.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AmericanHistory
I still adore this screenshot.
Also, some interesting @thunderbird trivia: In 2004, internet access wasn't nearly as widespread as it is now, so Mozilla offered to send installation CD-ROMs to users for $5.95.
#WindowsXP #Firefox #Thunderbird #History
So apparently the term "patch" in software development comes from punched paper tape.
"Small corrections to the programmed sequence could be done by patching over portions of the paper tape and re-punching the holes in that section."
chsi.harvard.edu/harvard-ibm-mโฆ
#til #computers #development #language #history
โVote NO on Woman Suffrageโ ๐
Not ancient #history, but just a century ago.
Source: State Archives of North Carolina
#OnThisDay, 7 Jan 1939, French physicist Marguerite Perey discovers element 87, which she later names francium. It was the last element to be discovered naturally.
Perey was a student of Marie Curie, and was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize but never received it.
#WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM #ScienceHistory #History #Histodons
Happy to share my new article, "Letters from the Ottoman Empire: Migration from the Caucasus and Russia's Pan-Islamic Panic," published by Slavic Review. doi.org/10.1017/slr.2023.164
For years, I have been searching for Muslim refugees' letters exchanged between the #Ottoman and Russian empires in the 1850sโ1914. I was lucky to find quite a few: in archives in Tbilisi, Baku, Moscow, Vladikavkaz, and Makhachkala and private collections in #Jordan and Dagestan. The article explores the secret transborder #letter exchange of Caucasus Muslims and reactions by #Russia.
I argue that Muslims' letters from the Ottoman Empire fueled the Russian government's paranoia about Pan-Islamism that purportedly threatened Russia's colonial project in the #Caucasus. The Pan-Islamic panic shaped Russia's migration policies and colonial governance, including bans on Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, emigration, and return migration.
#histodon #histodons #history #MiddleEast #Turkey
Letters from the Ottoman Empire: Migration from the Caucasus and Russia's Pan-Islamic Panic - Volume 82 Issue 2Cambridge Core
Gun control is a contentious issue in the United States. Its origins are complex, tied to a history of racial tension, political power dynamics, & competing interpretations of the Second Amendment. One significant chapter in this history is the emergence of the Black Panther Party and their role in the gun control debate.
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Print Archive: 400years.substack.com/
Video:Archive: m.youtube.com/channel/UCxj8rDAโฆ
Image: Black Panther Party by Alfredo Rostgaard (1943-2004)
I write about the triumphs and resilience of countless unknown or forgotten consequential individuals and events because it paves the way for a more inclusive future. Click to read 400 Years, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.400 Years
46 years ago today
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols is the only relevant studio album by the English punk rock band The Sex Pistols, which was released on October 28, 1977 on Virgin Records in the UK and on November 11, 1977 on Warner Bros. in the USA.
#punk #punkrock #history #punkrockhistory #otd
#ByzantineEmpire #Byzantine #history #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing #AcademicJournals
'Dumbarton Oaks Papers, which has been a leading academic journal in the field of Byzantine Studies since 1941, has unveiled a new website where all of its issues are open-access and available to read for free.'
For #PortfolioDay I am sharing one of my favourite collections called "Neglected Elegance"
These #lostplaces have now become a time capsule, capturing the essence of decades passed. Art Nouveau casinos and Art Deco theatres hidden behind closed doors. Forgotten Neo-Classical styled Italian villas with beautiful frescoed ceilings lay waiting to be discovered again. French chateaus, shrouded in dust.
Full #portfolio - obsidianurbexphotography.com/pโฆ
#photography #abandoned #history #architecture
Styles and tastes change as decades pass. These abandoned buildings have now become a time capsule, capturing the essence of a time long ago.Obsidian Urbex Photography
In 1920, Mamie Smith became the FIRST Black American to record a Blues song. "Crazy Bluesโ ushered in a new era of "race records.โ Previously, white singers copied Black vocal styles in blues recordings, while Black entertainers like Ma Rainey, Ethel Waters, & Bessie Smith were confined to the "Chitlin Circuit." Mamie Smithโs success paved the way for black blues & jazz musicians to thrive.
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@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social #BlackMastodon #Histodons #History #music
TIL there were guide dogs in medieval Europe!
This image from a 13th century French manuscript in the British Library shows a blind man being lead by a dog.
Hooray for Dr Krista Milna, who researches this topic and has just been awarded a grant to do more!
#GuideDogs #Dogs #Disability #Medieval #History
The Sakya Monastery in tibet has a library comprising some 84,000 books. Most are Buddhist scriptures, but there are works of literature, history, philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, agriculture, and art. They date back centuries.
In 2011 they began to digitize the library. All books are indexed and about 20% have been fully digitized.
More:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakya_Moโฆ
#Books #Library #Monastery #Tibet #History #Knowledge #Monks #Buddhism #Sakya
Joseph Laroche was the only black person of the Titanicโs 2,223 passengers & crew. On April 10, 1912, he joined the ship with his family at Grande Rade harbor, France. Despite enjoying the ship's lavish offerings & dining 1st class, the family faced scorn b/c of their interracial marriage. He went down with the ship. Later, White Star Line apologized for the racism of its crew towards non-white passengers.
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โฉ@blackmastodon@a.gup.peโจ@BlackMastodon@chirp.socialโจ#BlackMastodon #History #histodons #Titanic
